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Alec Baldwin Lawyers Up, and More Movie News

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Alec Baldwin will represent a child (Elle Fanning) who sues her parents for breeding her to save her cancer-stricken sis (Dakota F.) in My Sister's Keeper, an adaptation of the Jodi Picoult novel.... Also per Variety, Tom Cruise's Valkyrie has had its release pushed back from July 4 to Oct. 3, 2008.... Notes from the Underbelly's Rachael Harris is Robert Downey Jr's coworker in the musical/drama The Soloist.... Also per the Reporter, Rhona Mitra is the wife of Mad man Jon Hamm's police chief in the indie thriller The Boy in the Box.... Jason Ritter, Jesse L. Martin and Tracie Thoms will star in the romantic drama Peter and Vandy.... Mischa Barton is a psychologically unbalanced ex-girlfriend in Homecoming, to be directed by Morgan Freeman, says Page Six.

Posted by TV Guide News
Dec 18, 2007 9:43 AM
Also per Variety, Tom Cruise's Valkyrie has had its release pushed back from July 4 to Oct. 3, 2008....

Hmmm, moved from a big holiday weekend to...October? Not exactly where studios drop their big hits.

Ever since I heard about Valkyrie I've wondered if this was another step on Tom's march to madness (which we have been temporarily distracted from by his cute wife and daughter). I'll be glad when he loses his current Hitler haircut.
Posted by Kailess
Dec 18, 2007 10:35 AM
I think Alec will be great in My Sister's Keeper. It was a fantastic novel, hopefully the movie will be just as good. I dont know what I think of the casting of the Fanning sisters. While they are both great actresses, the characters they are supposed to play are 16 and 12, so each actress is about 2 years off the mark.
Posted by Sarabean99
Dec 18, 2007 11:14 AM
I do so hope you meant to write "who sues her parents for cloning her" rather than "breeding her".
Posted by Sheldon
Dec 18, 2007 12:13 PM
"Breeding" is how the Variety write-up put it, and that is probably the young girl's POV (given her litigous ways). - MWM
Posted by TV Guide News
Dec 18, 2007 1:00 PM
"Breeding her"?!?! I agree with the other poster who commented on this.

Cloning...conceiving...giving birth to...are all better terms and seem more accurate than the term used.

By the use of the word, it makes it sound that she was impregnated so that she could produce a child to help her sister.

And even if that is how Variety put it, I'd figure that TV Guide wouldn't "borrow" from another publication.
Posted by woodster73
Dec 18, 2007 3:35 PM
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